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E. J. BROOKS.

SEAL.

No. 564,467. Patented July 21, 1896.

will! UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

EDWARD J. BROOKS, OF EAST ORANGE, NEXV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE E. J.BROOKS & COMPANY, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

.SEAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 564,467, dated July 21,1896.

Application filed May l1 1896. Serial No. 591,119. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. BROOKS, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of East Orange, in the State of New Jersey, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Seals, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention is additional to the series of improvements in seals setforth in my preveniently and preferably plain as it comes from thewire-mill, and the pressed seal part is disk-shaped and wholly or mainlyof suitable sheet metal.

The general object of the invention, in common with those of theprevious inventions above referred to, is to produce improved sealswhich combine security, lightness, and inexpensiveness in a superiordegree.

The present invention consists in a novel combination of parts,hereinafter set forth and claimed, for inseparably attaching one of thedisk parts to a loop at one (or each) end of the shackle-wire; also, inthe combination, in an improved seal, of a shackle-Wire having loops ofdifferent sizes at its respective ends, its larger loop wiring a diskpart which is conveniently provided at the factory with permanentlettering or distinguishing marks,and a pair of button-shell cupsinseparably attached to the smaller loop as above and to the disk part,and having marginal flanges which are interlocked with each other by thesealpress.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents by full and dotted lines the wire ofeither form of the improved seal as it appears at the beginning of theassembling of the parts and the same as completed in the production ofthe specific seal represented by Figs. 1 to 7, inclusive.

Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are face views and sections of the other parts of saidspecific seal as they appear before being assembled. Fig. 5 rep resentsface and edge views of said specific seal as it leaves the factory. Fig.6 represents a cross-section of the same ready for the press, and Fig. 7represents a like View of the pressed seal. Figs. 8 and 9 are sectionalviews similar to Fig. 6, showing modifications of the improved seals.Fig. 10 is a face view of another modified seal. Fig. 11is across-section of the same ready for the press; and Fig. 12 is an edgeview of its pressed disks, showing in dotted lines another modification.

Like letters and numbers refer to like parts in all the figures.

In the preferred combination of parts the improved seal consists of ashackle-Wire A, a pair of button-shell cups B O, and a main disk part D,which are shown in detail by Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive. One end of thewire A is provided with a small loop 1 preliminary to assembling theparts. The cup B is constructed with a central depression 2, fitted tosaid small loop, a hole 3 in the circumferential wall of the depression,through which the wire is drawn in locating said loop in saiddepression, and a marginal flange 4, adapted to interlock with amarginal flange 5 on the other cup, O. This cup O has a flat back 6 anda central opening 7 ,and the disk part D is origi nally a flat circularblank provided with suitable lettering or distinguishing-marks 8, whichmay be printed thereon or stamped in raised or sunk characters, allthree of the disk parts B, O, and D being of suitable sheet metal.

The loop 1 of the wire A is secured within the depression 2 of the cup Bby punching a ragged eyelet 9, Fig. 5, out of the center of said cup, sothat its points overlie said loop and hold it in place. The other end ofthe wire A is then provided with the second loop. (Shown in dotted linesat 10 in Fig. 1.) The disk part D is wired with this loop, as in Figs.5, &c., and the cup C is attached to the face of said disk part D by aragged eyelet 11, punched out of the center of said disk part D, itspoints projecting through the opening 7 to the inside of the cup, wherethey are securely clenched. This completes the seal for the market, asin Fig. 5.

To prepare the seal for the press, the marginal flanges 4 and 5 of therespective cups B and O are placed one within the other, as

in Fig. 6, after passing. the cup B through a pair of ear-door staplesor the like and bringing the disk parts together in customary manner. Inthe pressed seal, Fig. '7, said flanges 4c and 5 are securelyinterlocked with each other, so as to preclude any separation or" theparts without such mutilation of the seal as will insure detection.

As illustrated by Fig. 8, the flanges 4 and 5 of the respective cups Band 0, together with the relative diameters of the respective cups, maybe reversed. The disk part D may also be reversed relatively to the loopand cup 0, as shown in this figure.

The additional modification represented by Fig. 9 consists in punchingthe flange 5 out of the middle of the disk part 1), so as to dispensewith the cup C.

In the modified seal represented by Figs. 10, 11, and 12 a small looplis formed on each end of the shackle-wire A, and a pain of cups B 13*,provided, respectively, with the marginal flanges at and 5, are fastenedto the respective loops by loop-holding depressionsfl and ragged eyelets9, as above described with reference to the cup 13 of the specific sealrepresented by Figs. 1 to 7, inclusive, said flanges l and 5 beinginterlocked with each other, as

illustrated by Figs. 11 and 12, to unite the ends of the wire.

In either form of the llllIJlOVGClSGELl a softmetal rivet E, Fig. 12,may be inserted through the central openings of the united diskpartssubstantially as hereinbefore specified.

for additional security or for supplemental press-marks, and other likemodifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

Having thus described the said improvement, I claim as my invention anddesire to patent under this specification- 1. In a press-fastened sealcomprising a flexible shackle-wire with sheet-metal disk parts at itsrespective ends, the combination of a shackle-wire having a small loopat one end and a sheetanetal cup constituting one of said disk parts andhaving a loop-holding depression, a hole through which the wire isthreaded and a ragged eyeletsecuring said loop within said depression,whereby said cup is inseparably attached to said shacklewire,

2. The combination,in a press-fastened seal,

of a shackle-wire having small and large loops at its respective ends, apair of cups having marginal flangesadapted to interlock when the sealis pressed, and one of them provided with a ragged eyelet by which saidsmall loop is fastened within said cup, and a disk part wired with saidlarge loop and provided with a ragged eyelet which attaches the secondcup to the face of said disk part, substantially as hereinbeforespecified.

EDlVARD J. BROOKS.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. M. WHITNEY, JAs. L. EWIN.

